#mighty nein origins yasha

[occidentalavian]

The gang's all here!

[acquaxxoid]

THEIR LITTLE FACES IM DYING

[jnoll]

redid an old yasha sketch

[stardustedknuckles]

MOLLY AND YASHAAAAAAA MY HEART.

THEY'RE FAMILY. THEY'RE BEST FRIENDS. I'M GONNA CRY.

[casukaga]

idk if i’ll live draw more tonight, but here’s yasha and scaldsaber

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[sivsii]

Returning to my roots

Original:

[dent-de-leon]

Absolutely ruined by this one panel of Molly telling Yasha about his “choir practice.” The way he just looks so soft and melancholy. A glimpse behind the curtain, a painful vulnerability amidst all the joy and color he revels in. Confessing that he can't bear to watch someone else just suffer in silence; he can't just do nothing when there's someone hurting. “The truth is...how do I put this...The world is harsh and cruel, and I can't seem to be able to just walk on by. You see a wrong? You fix it.”

“I know what the other others think, but—” The twins gossiping whenever Molly takes off in the dead of night. And Molly letting them presume, think what they like, because the reality is something he doesn’t want anyone else to see. “Not sure why he's so embarrassed though...” This is something just for him, just for his own shattered shard of a spirit. A chance to protect another lost soul. To fix a bit of this broken world.

So compassionate, so protective--always getting so easily caught up and invested, ruled by reckless impulse and a bleeding heart. Playing at the hero. (He never knew Lucien loved putting on a performance too, that he was always cast as the villain; warm memories of song and dance and little plays on the roadside. Choking on the ash and smoke of a burning caravan--)

Molly pulling up the hood of his cloak and darting away under the safety of Sehanine's shadows. Running off to risk his life for complete strangers, for people who may never thank him, for a world that may always hate him. “I’ll tell you--and this is true--I did my best every town I went to and every town I left, no matter how they treated me. And a lot of them treated me with deep disrespect...I left every town better than I found it.” The way this resonates with everything Taliesin said about how the whole point of Molly's blood magic is sacrifice, how his powers stem from his desire to be a protector, to be good—

“[Molly’s power] was about sacrifice. It’s the giving of himself to give to others. Giving of himself to be a protector.” 

“His very nature is to appear to be many things that he is not. His power looks one way--it looks damaging and looks broken and unhealthy--but, in the end, it’s all about a desire to be a good friend and a good family member.” 

Mollymauk waking with faint echoes of haunting memories and nightmares of too many eyes and screaming minds, desperately trying to outrun the chilling legacy that Lucien left behind. Trying so hard to do better, to be better, to prove that he's not the monster he's so terrified a part of him once was. “Whatever it was, it doesn't feel good when I-- the moment when something creeps through, I don't like it. I don't want anything to do with it. I was happy!”

“I don’t want to remember anything. I don’t want anybody else’s baggage in my head, I don’t want anybody else’s problems, thoughts, ideas...I like this person. [This person], right now, is a good person, is a fine person, is a happy person.”

The fact that Molly runs headlong into danger for others all the time, yet he's still so taken by surprise that Yasha would do the same for him--

[natp20]

mighty nein origins: mollymauk tealeaf // critical role, cr2 117: the tortoise and the dare // critical role, cr2 140: long may he reign

[tiamat-zx]

So I’ve been rewatching the Beauyasha supercut compiled by Astro Edits on YouTube, and… I’ve realized something.

When Yasha is recounting the day that she lost Zuala, she remembered it as her running away from the execution, and that she hadn’t seen it with her own eyes.

However, that’s not what really happened.

She did, in fact, witness it. She witnessed the Skyspear stabbing Zuala with her blade when the latter had tried to convince the former to allow their union. She had also slain the Skyspear in retribution.

To be fair, it’s not out of the question to declare that Yasha was an unreliable narrator when by her own admission she had been missing some time in her memory, and thus may not have fully recalled everything at the time due to her rage and sorrow rendering it all a blur.

I bring this up because, from what I understand, the fog had faded the moment that Obann had shackled her once more. She had suddenly remembered what she had done.

And nowhere was that made ever clearer than the moment that she had been forced to stab Beau in the Chantry of the Dawn.

As I stated before in a post a while back, the “imagery she had seen once before” was not that of Molly’s death, but that of Zuala. At that point, she had regained a significant portion of her memories, including what had occurred on that day. She had even expressed confusion during her epilogue when she saw Jadek in the armor of the Skyspear, and then Yasha quietly realized that the previous Skyspear had been felled by her own hand.

So when you think about it, this explains the supposed contradictions between what was mentioned in the campaign and what was depicted in her origin comic. Because there weren’t any contradictions at all.

Regardless, there is still one fact that remained constant: her belief that she was a coward for the longest time whether it was her long-held belief that she had run away from the execution, or the sad truth that she didn’t have the courage to confront the Skyspear herself, the latter of which had led directly to Zuala sealing her own fate.

It wasn’t until she had found the second love of her life that she began to realize that she wasn’t a coward, but a survivor. And it wasn’t until she had found Zuala’s grave that she finally made peace with her loss, and had been able to forgive herself.

To this day, Yasha Nydoorin still remains my favorite PC to come from the creative and talented mind of Ashley Johnson. And this is but one of many reasons as to why.

[frojenzel]

babies ! had to draw tiny gremlin yasha as soon as her originis book came out,,,took me until now to finish but there’s an extra tiny jester as well so i feel like that cancels out

💕🤲 gently holding them

[robynn-art]

Official cover art for the first volume of The Mighty Nein Origins. What an amazing contract to do ♥ Copyrights own by Critical Role & Dark Horse Comics

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[big-moon-little-moon]

Sometimes I think I am normal about the mighty nein but then I preorder the beau origins comic book and start crying just looking at the cover and thinking about what it will contain

[vethbrenatto]

Okay so I’ve owned the Yasha MN Origins for months and have not read it until today because I ordered the Fjord Origins recently and wanted to read Yasha before my new book arrived and oh my god.

Honestly I think that may be my favorite Origins to date (I’ve read Caleb, Veth, Jester, and Yasha). Something about the storytelling really gripped me; I think the looseness of Yasha’s backstory really helped. In the other Origins I’ve read, the backstories from the stream are so specific I feel like I can get bogged down in details.

Im also very deep in my Yasha/Zuala feelings, I’m obsessed with the Marking, AND I want the AU where Yasha essentially becomes the next Mother and then *somehow* meets the Nein.

[stardustedknuckles]

Bonus lil scraps of Beau :3

[intergalacticwanderer]

I'm not going to go into specifics since the digital version isn't out yet, but in the Mollymauk comic Yasha actually shows up before the end and I am emotionally compromised.

[sivsii]

i simply think they should be besties again!